# Fire Emblem Shadows — user reviews

> 231 indexed App Store user reviews of Fire Emblem Shadows by Nintendo Co., Ltd., rated 4.30/5 from 1,833 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fire-emblem-shadows/id6746113513/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fire-emblem-shadows/id6746113513.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,291 · 4★ 193 · 3★ 94 · 2★ 64 · 1★ 191

## What do users think of Fire Emblem Shadows?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 👍 Good character designs
- 🚀 Fast-paced gameplay
- 💡 Unique take on Fire Emblem franchise
- 👍 Respects Fire Emblem archetypes

**Cons**

- 🐛 Buggy and laggy performance
- 🔒 Pay-to-win elements
- 👎 Lackluster gameplay and story
- 👎 Doesn't feel like a true Fire Emblem game

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Matchmaking issues
- Network problems
- Crashes and freezes

**Most requested features**

- Longer and more engaging matches
- Improved social deduction mechanics
- Higher-quality graphics and visuals

## Newest reviews (13 of 231)

### 2/5 — This Ain’t It

*2026-07-23, version 1.9.0*

It’s an auto-battler with very little player input. That wouldn’t be so bad if they advertised that upfront. Also, the game jumps right into the tutorial and basically locks you into watching the game play itself for 10 minutes with no title or option screen to turn volume down or change any settings. I find that kinda thing predatory. If you were looking for FE (or any TRPG experience) on mobile, this ain’t it.

### 3/5 — Hard for free to play

*2026-07-05, version 1.9.0*

I am not a adult who is gonna pay every season pass just to get one extra hero make a alternative please

### 2/5 — Quite a impressive idea

*2026-06-21, version 1.8.0*

Sad 2 on 1 and the fact counters still apply for the gameplay idea makes it very one sided match then there the cooldown skills self heals have to much power you got abuse the turn cycle 2 second mark to make feel logical at all and finally the characters went screw gacha let make them farm it with a lowest drop rate possible bazaar market way to dame expensive considering how much gold you make making them for use to buy battle pass with that wave to your face 2000 gold overall enjoy the game idea don’t think fits well with fire emblem design lol…

### 4/5 — Better than most mobile games

*2026-05-08, version 1.7.0*

It’s not as good as a normal FE game and u can’t really control ur character but the story seems good and it hasn’t gaslit me into buying anything yet so 4 stars

### 2/5 — Nothing like FEH

*2026-05-06, version 1.7.0*

If you're expecting a successor to Fire Emblem Heroes this isn't it.  Nothing like it.  And not my thing.

### 2/5 — Fire emblem?

*2026-05-05*

This is not fire emblem. It doesn’t play like it at all. I am not sure how to explain this game. It’s an auto battle type game where you can use skills that go on cooldown. And it also has a imposter mechanic (like among us), but the problem with that its 3 players on a map and it’s normally pretty easy to tell who the imposter is. I also feel like this game is incredibly unbalanced to the point of being unfair. Sometimes you’ll be knocked out in one hit or sometimes you might find it easy. The shop as well is incredibly expensive for what you get, which comes off as very greedy.

### 2/5 — fire emblem only in name

*2026-04-22, version 1.6.0*

farming downloads using the name but the game is just pretty trash 2* because voice acting is serviceable but the gameplay isnt

### 3/5 — Super grindy

*2026-03-31, version 1.6.0*

I wanted corrin but I have to unlock 50+ characters before I can even start earning shards for the character I want

### 3/5 — 慣れて分かると面白くなる

*2026-02-27*

はじめたての頃は闇陣営になった時、相手を騙し切ったのにまったく勝てなくてクソつまらんと思ったのですが、魔法を見直し戦略を立てたところ勝てるようになりました。
バランスが絶妙で毎回勝てるわけでもなく、今回騙せてなかったら危なかったなとか、ギリギリの勝ち負けもあって面白いです。
オンライン要素のあるゲームは超課金勢がバカ強くつまらないので一般ユーザーは結局オンラインをやらなくなるところがあると思いますが、このゲームはその辺りのバランスが取れてます。
これ勝てないだろな相手には本当にたまにしか遭遇しません。
戦略次第で光陣営でも闇陣営でも勝てます。

星を減点した理由はストーリーパートがおもんないからです。ヒーローズもやってますが基本好きなキャラ以外全部スキップしてます。

ちなみにゲーム性はヒーローズより圧倒的にこちらが上です。好きなキャラがいるのでヒーローズもやってますが、あっちは基本全部作業です。

あとレベル6くらいからレベル上げが非常に困難になります。

### 2/5 — Ummm…Oh ok

*2026-02-23, version 1.4.0*

This game…exists. It’s a niche experience seeing my favorite characters get animalfied. I mean if this ur thing, go for it. Lackluster and not a typical fire emblem gameplay. 2 stars ⭐️⭐️

### 4/5 — …

*2026-02-18, version 1.4.0*

Why does this remind me of Among Us?

### 2/5 — Deceptively Interesting

*2026-01-11*

So, don’t get me wrong, I love this game and think its super fun. I think that there’s so many neat things about this being quick, bite sized content that’s easy to consume. The mechanics of voting out the Shadow player seems to be beyond me, however. I haven’t been wrong on a vote, because usually the shadow players never change their votes at all when the phase comes up. That’s not even the main thing that boggles me. There’s been countless times where I’ve played both Light and Shadow and I don’t play to kill, just to blend in and be fine, but I somehow end up with both teammates voting me out instantly. Perhaps this has something to do with playing with friends? Even then, there’s been so many times where that type of situation happens, then the Moon Room feels unbeatable because people just don’t play or they give up and don’t make smart decisions to beat the Shadow player. I feel like this game has a lot that it can offer to players in terms gameplay and what it has to offer, but it also feels like its limiting itself in the same, oddly uncomfortable ways.

### 2/5 — Boring

*2026-01-08*

There’s very little to do and what there is, I don’t like.  I have been logging in, after trying to play it for about a month, to see if it was going anywhere.  It’s the same.

Also the story is UNACCEPTABLY sexist.  There’s no reason for male heirs only in a made up story in this century.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Larping

*2026-07-25, version 1.9.0*

Wtf is fire emblem a furry simulator now?

### 1/5 — Wtf is this

*2026-05-16*

Seriously

### 1/5 — L

*2026-04-02, version 1.6.0*

Game so boringgggg

### 1/5 — It’s okay

*2026-03-06, version 1.5.0*

Game was okay when I played when it first came out. I deleted because it was a little boring and repetitive. I wanted to redownload and see if they’ve added more or changed things, but it makes me replay the tutorial? Doesn’t give me an option to sign back in. I’m not willing to do the tutorial again because why would I need to? I don’t understand why I can’t login and just resume where I left off? It’s 2026 that should be the mandatory with any game at this point. I’m just going to delete. Okay game with repetitive game play. Unique? Absolutely.

### 1/5 — Pay to win, no players, sad state

*2026-03-04*

Prior to rank 2500+ you’re matched with dumb bots. As soon as you hit that, you get put in a pool with whales who do twice your damage and have far more health because they dished out their wallet to level up and skip the ungodly long grind.

You wait 20+ minutes for a match, often even longer (or break the ToS and use a VPN to change your region and hope you only wait 10). When you finally do get in one it’s extremely unfair and pay to win with payers getting massive gameplay advantages (you will not kill them with buffed, single tile timed attacks. They will kill you with unbuffed instant AoEs). And then because rewards don’t scale with loot you’re getting extremely mediocre rewards that aren’t helpful and you were bored of weeks ago.

Missed out on previous battle passes? Tough luck, those powerful characters and those skills aren’t going to be available any time soon. It’s been over two months without a single event but they expect you to pay up every month for a battlepass.

I want to love this game but you NEED to fix it because getting gameplay advantage with money is NOT cool and there’s basically no content here but doing the exact same one mode on the exact same one map until you reach the point where you can’t win because the whales need to feel good.

Avoid until an overhaul, they shouldn’t be rewarded.

### 1/5 — Freezing when I click battle

*2026-03-04, version 1.5.0*

Can’t play

### 1/5 — 핵노잼

*2026-02-25*

엠히는 번역 안하고, 이딴 똥겜은 했네
근데 게임이 똥이라 개헛수고
엠히도 개쳐망해가는데 축하합니다

### 1/5 — 닌텐도, 인트시스에게

*2026-02-06*

닌텐도, 인트시스야 우중이한테 가서 모바게 어떻게 만드는지 좀 배워라

### 1/5 — Barely a fire emblem game

*2026-01-31*

None of the enjoyment of the originals are here. There is none of the charm or tactics from previous titles.

### 1/5 — This company should be forced to sell the IP

*2026-01-01, version 1.3.0*

Seriously, idk how tf someone can mismanage an IP so badly you end up making it into an Amongus knock off 5 years past the fad. Genuinely stupid people at this company.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — 久もふ(26/8/8)真・完全版🐾

*2026-08-09*

🦮行動で読み合う人狼🐈

小人数＆短時間で
ラ　イ　ブ　感　ある対戦ができるぞ
2対1🎮だがプレッシャーは少なめ！

前半では3人で協力して敵を倒し(👹はどう処理して信用を稼ぐか考え)
中間で👹を推理…
後半で👹判明＆💡👹決戦！

時たまやり込み勢で武器＆魔法レベル激高な人がいるでな
火力差で勝てぬ試合もある、そん時は次へGO🚗

🎮性上、友と一緒に試合には潜れない
現難点:負け確を悟っても降参できぬ

・感想
👹バレBGM好きすぎる　最推セリカ様🥰
支援会話あるとFEぽい
ソシャゲに最適化した🎮性って感じ
物語、心身グロが微ねちっこい
もふ…良いよね
👹側で二重人格ムーブ楽しい

\🐦おつまみヒント/
まず慣れるまで遊ぼう、ゆるりと各キャラに触れよ
毎度全部↓は意識しとらん😉
●光側💡向け
💡使用キャラ、素で非力ぽい時→召喚魔法・どうじゃ
敵処理お手伝いさん
召喚を敵側に置くとこっちが狙われないぞ
又は毒☠️(🐦‍⬛男子が持っとる　誰でも☠️つけれる)

💡後半、攻撃避ける程長生き👍
移動できる魔法をGETしたら装備してみよ
ー
光闇両方武器付け替え/スキルちら見を忘れずに👀
🐦の一案
信用したぞアピールor信用貰いの攻・防⤴️魔法を使うとか🤔
己だけ信じ自己⤴️(💡から疑心or👹から畏怖)
全員⤴️…お好みで！
ー
◯闇側👹向け
不慣れな内は💡と同じ動き方orごり押しで👍
前半
👹側でも不変な生き残りたい/苦手属性処理したいの気持ち、意外と…読める
👹自作自演で倒れても👍
💡を倒さず後半即〆れるよう"削るだけ"も👍

👹魔法使うと暫く動けん(例外🐜)
⚠️💡が魔法後止まっとる所を👹が通常魔法で狙う
→もう一人の💡だけ「タイミング見て👹はこっち」と見抜き易し

後半
👹召喚…2〜3枠ぐらいが🐦お気に入り
集中ボコられ即😇阻止/実は攻も強い

👹即回復されて面倒…
例:自キャラの自動攻撃に合わせた即当て魔法で〆

👹使用キャラが効かぬ属性…の範囲魔法入れると
自然と苦手属性💡対策に！
ミスって己に当てても痛くない

👹攻撃避けられる…
例:十字の攻撃魔法を試してみよ🪄

👹すぐ当てられる魔法、自キャラ持ってない
🦊女子を解放せよ
即当て＆単発攻撃を誰にでもセット！すごぶる便利
割引券を握り　魂を買い漁れ(無料💴)

🌀慣れた人向け
魔法直後を待つ等「テンポを握る」も🔑

### 5/5 — WORTH A SHOT!!

*2026-08-07*

If you’re a Fire Emblem fan or just generally trying something new, I highly recommend this lite strategy game!! It’s very cute being able to organise units, collect favourite characters just by playing, and sorting out your arsenal! Music and art alone are worth the experience, along with the great story as well. The support conversations are a nice touch and it’s very sparing of your time, so only 5 minutes a day to get basically everything needed.

### 5/5 — Great game

*2026-04-26*

It wasn’t something for meat first but after some more gameplay it kinda reminds me of xenoblade and I love that

### 5/5 — It’s a New Fire Emblem

*2026-03-31, version 1.6.0*

Gameplay- 100% f2p. It is a social deduction multiplayer game with two rounds. The first round three players play as disciples of light fighting monsters, but one player is a traitor. After that round there is a vote. If those on the light vote right, they get a second bonus life for the next round where the traitor’s character takes a monstrous (yet cute) form and acts as a boss in a 2v1 PvP battle (the traitor does get 1 or more monsters as well). The game does keep the traditional weapon advantage. Red does bonus damage to green, green to blue, and blue to red.

Character- Each character has its own unique ability and three spells that come with it. It takes 12 soul fragments to unlock a character. Medals with green jewels are used to level them up. The three spells that came with that character (as well as their personal skill) level up with them, but the three spells can be used on any character. Levels also are important as they will allow for better weapons to be equipped as their ranks go up. There are multiple original characters as well as legacy characters (as of this review Dimitri, Lyn, Corrin (female version), Veronica, Ike, Edelgard, Ephraim, and Yunaka). Also the art is really good.

Rating system- Every character starts at a light rating and shadow rating of 1. During one every other ‘player’ is a bot, but 2-40 are real players. Even if one loses, their rating will continue to go up until rating 19. After that the rating will go down after a defeat (to the current ratings beginning. The rating can’t demote you beyond your current rating though). 

F2P- This game is actually 100% F2P. The only things money can be used for are battle passes (only legacy characters excluding Dimitri who is able to be unlocked in the game through story progression), outfits, and for those who for whatever reason want to, buying levels. The game instead has chests that give random rewards. Depending on how one does in the match they can get up to three gold chests. These chests will mostly give low level weapons and perks but can give Lv. 7-8 character weapons, character souls fragments, and medals. The legacy characters outside special events have an extremely low chance, but can be obtained after their battle passes ends and their fragments are added to the reward pool.

Login rewards- every day there is free medals and gold. Also four daily challenges. One challenge for medals, the other three give points towards battle passes progression.

Bazaar- a live player based market where gold is used. Players can sell weapons, perks, and excess soul fragments. Unfortunately it does mean some things are extremely expensive. Also that prices adjust often. Also unfortunately some prices (especially soul fragments) are high because people horde them.

Story- the story is in two halves. Light and shadow. They progress through playing as that respective side. There are rewards as well such as soul fragments (most unlocked through this), green jewels, and medals. Some soul fragments are only a portion though and the rest must be unlocked through chest or purchasing from other players in the bazaar. The story is decently good so far. My only complaints are the whole shadow and light path and not being able to revisit the tutorial part of the story from book one. For the first complaint, it’s confusing to tell the one between the two sometimes. The second part is it almost sounded like the stories would be separate with a light and shadow path, not just parts of the whole story. Only the rapports actually do the both sides. As for the second complaint, the tutorial has a decent amount of book 1’s story so if one wants to go back and enjoy the story, they can’t because it’s incomplete. 

Friends- there are friend lobbies. It is based by making up a code and sharing it. 

Overall review, it is an amazing game with quick short matches. It definitely isn’t for everyone, but it is worth a try and is a real Fire Emblem whether the complainers like it or not. Hopefully this review was helpful and apologies that it is so long.

### 5/5 — ゲームとしては満足

*2026-03-20*

個人的に人狼系のゲームが好きと言うのもあり、モチベを持って始めたが、期待値に十分応える内容ではあった。
こう言うのが好きな人はとことん楽しめるし、技術的な部分も自ら学ぶと思う。
だがそこまで人狼に理解がないプレイヤーは少し人狼として炙り出しやすい振る舞いをしていると感じるし、逆に明らかに人狼の振る舞いをしている人を見過ごしていることもある。
例えばプレイヤーの魔法で他プレイヤーを攻撃する時、自キャラのアイコンが出るものがあり、それで他プレイヤーを攻撃している事
逆にアイコンの乗らない攻撃で他プレイヤーを攻撃するが、他プレイヤー2人が自キャラのアイコン付きの魔法を直前、直後に使っている時リキャスト的に他プレイヤーを攻撃した人間がアイコン付きを使っていないプレイヤーで確定する事
生存時の魔法のリキャストは通常5秒で死亡時は10秒となるが人狼目線で魔法を使う時も同様で他プレイヤーが死亡している時に5秒に一回人狼限定の魔法を撃ち続けて明らかに今死亡している人が人狼ではない事が確定する事
これらを考慮していないプレイヤーがそこそこ出会うのでそこが少しもどかしくは感じる。

また、戦闘に関しても、移動系魔法を使いこなせている人と使いこなせていないプレイヤーとで明らかに勝率が変わると感じる、唱えた場所の前後のマスのユニットを入れ替える魔法は必ず一つは入れるべきで敵の通常攻撃を避けたり、人狼側の魔法を避けたりするのに必須で特に敵の通常攻撃は普通に強力なので回復スキルでフルHPにしても死亡する可能性があるので避ける事の方が生存しやすいので全プレイヤーに標準装備で良いと思う。

運営に求めることがあるとすればプレイヤースキル向上を推進するためにゲーム内や公式サイト、youtubeチャンネルなどで仕様上見破られる可能性が高い行動についての言及や、魔法の運用についての説明をする事を周知すると良いのではないかと感じる。
インフルエンサーがやるから良いと思うならそれも良いが、FEの看板で今まで付いていたインフルエンサーは扱いづらい内容ではある事は確かなので公式から発信することも必要なのではないかと感じる。
ゲームとしては普通に楽しいと思うだけにそこだけが少し危ういと思う。

### 5/5 — Wow

*2026-02-11, version 1.4.0*

The story is good the art is beautiful I love fire emblem games!

### 5/5 — Catboy dimitri

*2026-01-22, version 1.3.1*

Catboy dimitri

### 5/5 — やりこむほど奥が深いシステム

*2025-12-26*

やり始めの頃はただ魔法で殴るだけのシンプルなゲームだと思っていましたが、魔法の種類がある程度増えた段階でこのゲームがいかに奥が深いかがわかるようになりました。
まずスキルの種類として移動系スキルがありますが光側の場合コレを撃つタイミングが非常に大事です。
そして闇側陣営は移動系がある場合即着魔法か移動のクールタイムを狙って時間差魔法を撃つなどの工夫を強いられます。
この読み合いがわかるようになってくるとこの魔法を持っているならこういう動きをしようといった戦略が生まれてくる訳です。
そしてキャラクターごとの専用魔法によって毎回の戦闘ではそれぞれの特徴を活かした戦略が展開され、ワンパターンな展開が起きることがなくこのバトルシステムを楽しめるようになっていました。

また人狼要素としての推理パートがあります。
推理パートの先頭ではキャラ専用魔法や回復魔法でプレイヤーの顔がわかります。そして死亡したプレイヤーはクールタイムが倍になるシステムがあり、このシステムを活かして戦略が生まれます。
闇側はクールタイムをあえてズラすことで光側の容疑を操作できますし、光側はクールタイムを意識した光アピールが必要になってきます、この読み合いも回数をこなすうちにわかるようになってからはどうやって騙す・光側なら容疑を晴らすかといった戦略が生まれ非常に奥が深いゲームだと思いました。

課金圧は少なくキャラもある程度のプレイでほぼ手に入り、バトルパス専用キャラは低確率ながら無課金でも理論上はたくさんのプレイで入手できる仕様となっています。
プレイに必要な時間も1プレイ約3分でスキマ時間にも最適なゲームだと思います！
FEシリーズですが、シリーズを知らなくても大丈夫です。
このゲームが気になる方は是非プレイしてみてください！

### 5/5 — Fire Emblem meets among us?

*2025-12-22, version 1.2.0*

Honestly, I thought it was gonna be a cash grab for nintendo, but genuinely it caught me by surprise! Good game tbh.

### 5/5 — Great game, bad tutorial

*2025-12-17, version 1.2.0*

Game is very very simple and easy to understand, the game is a 2v1 fighter that takes place in turns, each side has a designated attacking phase and has the ability to use spells every 5 seconds (depending on the spells you use sometimes less), games go by very fast with the main goal of kill everyone or find out who tried to kill you in the first phase without dying on the 2nd phase. Id compare it to dead by daylight but you actually get to fight back, also the tutorial sucks and does not adequately teach you how to play the game and drags on for too long, the battlepass is essentially just more stuff to do daily, and if you miss the character in one you can always get them at a later date for free (their drops are insanely rare so you will have to buy them off the market) also the game has a player run economy that is active enough that you should be able to afford most of the non new bp characters, they also from time to time give out free characters in the story. Overall as a long time fire emblem fan I love it, I wish there was more to do and thats really my only complaint

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